The Frontier. Морис Леблан

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       Maurice Leblanc

      The Frontier

      Published by Good Press, 2019

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      EAN 4057664597151

Table of Contents

       PART I

       CHAPTER I

       A HEAD BETWEEN THE BUSHES

       CHAPTER II

       THE GIRL WITH THE BARE ARMS

       CHAPTER III

       THE VIOLET PAMPHLET

       CHAPTER IV

       PHILIPPE AND HIS WIFE

       CHAPTER V

       THE SHEET OF NOTE-PAPER

       CHAPTER VI

       THE PLASTER STATUE

       CHAPTER VII

       EVE TRIUMPHANT

       CHAPTER VIII

       THE TRAP

       PART II

       CHAPTER I

       THE TWO WOMEN

       CHAPTER II

       PHILIPPE TELLS A LIE

       CHAPTER III

       FATHER AND SON

       CHAPTER IV

       THE ENQUIRIES

       CHAPTER V

       THE THUNDERCLAP

       CHAPTER VI

       THE BUTTE-AUX-LOUPS

       CHAPTER VII

       MARTHE ASKS A QUESTION

       CHAPTER VIII

       THE STAGES TO CALVARY

       PART III

       CHAPTER I

       THE ARMED VIGIL

       CHAPTER II

       THEY WHO GO TO THEIR DEATH

       CHAPTER III

       IDEAS AND FACTS

       CHAPTER IV

       THE SACRED SOIL

PART I

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CHAPTER I

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A HEAD BETWEEN THE BUSHES

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      "They've done it!"

      "What?"

      "The German frontier-post … at the circus of the Butte-aux-Loups."

      "What about it?"

      "Knocked down."

      "Nonsense!"

      "See for yourself."

      Old Morestal stepped aside. His wife came out of the drawing-room and went and stood by the telescope, on its tripod, at the end of the terrace.

      "I can see nothing," she said, presently.

      "Don't you see a tree standing out above the others, with lighter foliage?"

      "Yes."

      "And, to the right of that tree, a little lower down, an empty space surrounded by fir-trees?"

      "Yes."

      "That's the circus of the Butte-aux-Loups and it